The Geography of Thought
Subtitle: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
Publisher: Free Press
Published: March 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743255356
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Ethnic studies; Psychology; Anthropology - Cultural; Cognitive Psychology; Social Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; General
First sentence: More than a billion people in the world today claim intellectual inheritance from ancient Greece.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: ix; label: Introduction
title: xiii; label: 1
title: The Syllogism and the Tao: Philosophy, Science, and Society in Ancient Greece and China
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Social Origins of Mind: Economics, Social Practices, and Thought
pagenum: 29; label: 3
title: Living Together vs. Going It Alone: Social Life and Sense of Self in the Modern East and West
pagenum: 47; label: 4
title: "Eyes in the Back of Your Head" or "Keep Your Eye on the Ball"?: Envisioning the World
pagenum: 79; label: 5
title: "The Bad Seed" or "The Other Boys Made Him Do It"?: Causal Attribution and Causal Modeling East and West
pagenum: 111; label: 6
title: Is the World Made Up of Nouns or Verbs?: Categories and Rules vs. Relationships and Similarities
pagenum: 137; label: 7
title: "Ce N'est Pas Logique" or "You've Got a Point There"?: Logic and the Law of Noncontradiction vs Dialectics and the Middle Way
pagenum: 165; label: 8
title: And If the Nature of Thought Is Not Everywhere the Same?: Implications for Psychology, Philosophy, Education, and Everyday Life
pagenum: 191; label: Epilogue
title: The End of Psychology or the Clash of Mentalities: The Longevity of Differences
pagenum: 219; label: Notes
title: 231; label: References
title: 241; label: Index
title: 253